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Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges 2026-04-29 at 05:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the role The US Department of Justice has accused data and AI platform provider Cloudera of abusing a program designed to give permanent […]

Future holiday horror: ‘A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo’ 2026-04-29 at 05:15 By Simon Sharwood Haneda airport will start testing humanoid robots, because everything that gets a plane flying was designed for our species Your next holiday memory might involve humanoid robots losing your luggage.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft’s bed, into Amazon’s Bedrock 2026-04-28 at 22:36 By Tobias Mann Altman’s gaggle of GPTs now available in limited preview in an AWS region near you OpenAI’s top models are officially available on Amazon Web Services’ Bedrock managed inference and agent platform.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Elon Musk slams OpenAI rival ahead of landmark trial in California: ‘Scam Altman’ 2026-04-28 at 22:18 By Marc Vartabedian The high-stakes trial over the future of artificial intelligence began Tuesday in federal court in Oakland, Calif. – but not before Elon Musk jumped ahead of opening statements with a flurry of social media posts sticking

Elon Musk set for major SpaceX payday — if he settles 1 million people on Mars 2026-04-28 at 22:18 By Thomas Barrabi The pay package, which received approval in January, would grant Musk a whopping 200 million super-voting restricted shares of stock – as long as the colony is permanent, has at least one million

Don’t pay Vect a ransom – your data’s likely already wiped out 2026-04-28 at 22:18 By Jessica Lyons ‘Full recovery is impossible for anyone, including the attacker’ Organizations hit by the wave of Trivy and LiteLLM supply-chain compromises that paid Vect in hopes of recovering their data likely did not get much back, according to

Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative 2026-04-28 at 22:18 By Brandon Vigliarolo Talkie’s training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it’ll help us better understand how AI thinks If you’re tired of interacting with a bot that spews Nazi propaganda or refers to itself as MechaHitler,

Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects 2026-04-28 at 22:18 By Dan Robinson DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects As the Iran war pushes up energy prices, the Trump administration is paying offshore wind developers to walk away from projects and invest instead in fossil fuel

Researchers Discover Critical GitHub CVE-2026-3854 RCE Flaw Exploitable via Single Git Push 2026-04-28 at 22:18 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security vulnerability impacting GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server that could allow an authenticated user to obtain remote code execution with a single “git push” command. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-3854 (CVSS

Brazilian LofyGang Resurfaces After Three Years With Minecraft LofyStealer Campaign 2026-04-28 at 22:18 By A cybercrime group of Brazilian origin has resurfaced after more than three years to orchestrate a campaign that targets Minecraft players with a new stealer called LofyStealer (aka GrabBot). “The malware disguises itself as a Minecraft hack called ‘Slinky,’” Brazil-based cybersecurity

A third of all scam victims were hit by social media fraud — and losses are in the billions of dollars: FTC 2026-04-28 at 20:33 By Reda Wigle According to the Federal Trade Commission, nearly 30% of people who reported being scammed in 2025 said the swindle began on social media. This article is an

Google inks Pentagon deal for classified AI work despite uproar from employees warning of ‘irreparable damage’ 2026-04-28 at 20:33 By Thomas Barrabi The partnership surfaced on the same day that more than 600 Google employees wrote a letter to Pichai stating they were “deeply concerned” about the firm’s negotiations with the Pentagon. This article is

Amazon unveils a Copilot for all your apps 2026-04-28 at 20:33 By Richard Speed and Matt Rosoff Retailer touts ‘teammates’ and always-on context as it muscles into an already crowded enterprise market Amazon has announced two AI services pitched with typical techbro hyperbole, aimed at changing the way you work.… This article is an excerpt

IBM’s AI coding ‘partner’ Bob hits general availability 2026-04-28 at 20:33 By Joe Fay 80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flags IBM has announced global availability of Bob, the AI coding assistant – sorry partner – which it claims has delivered a productivity boost to

Why De-Escalation Must Be Part of a Layered Safety Strategy in Healthcare 2026-04-28 at 20:33 By What healthcare security leaders need to know about de-escalation training.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Have I Been Pwned claims Pitney Bowes hit by 8.2M email address leak 2026-04-28 at 18:07 By Connor Jones Names, phone numbers, physical addresses also included in Shiny Hunters alleged data dump Logistics technology company Pitney Bowes, which makes franking machines for US postage, is the latest scalp claimed by ShinyHunters and its ongoing spree

VECT 2.0 Ransomware Irreversibly Destroys Files Over 131KB on Windows, Linux, ESXi 2026-04-28 at 18:06 By Threat hunters are warning that the cybercriminal operation known as VECT 2.0 acts more like a wiper than a ransomware due to a critical flaw in its encryption implementation across Windows, Linux, and ESXi variants that renders recovery impossible

Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon 2026-04-28 at 17:13 By Tobias Mann RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassis Tenstorrent on Tuesday announced the general availability of its Galaxy Blackhole AI compute platform.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says ‘We haven’t canceled anything yet’ 2026-04-28 at 17:13 By Richard Speed That ‘yet’ is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has appeared before the US House Appropriations Committee to explain the proposed Trump administration plan to

UK.gov’s DCMS to new CDIO: migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team 2026-04-28 at 17:13 By Lindsay Clark £125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to live Later today, prospective candidates will log onto a UK government call to convince themselves that £125k